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Roanoke
Times, 3-22-2020, Pg NandW 1, 5: Cases continue to soar
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Italy, at the heart of Europe’s
rampaging outbreak, announced nearly 800 new deaths and 6,600 new cases — its
biggest day-to-day increase yet.
Army trucks
used to collect the dead -- In Modern Day Italy!
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In reflection, In the US, the death rate was so great in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic that in Philadelphia the bodies were placed at the curbside and the Sanitation workers picked-up the bodies in wagons.
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In reflection, In the US, the death rate was so great in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic that in Philadelphia the bodies were placed at the curbside and the Sanitation workers picked-up the bodies in wagons.
The worst
horrors were seen in Philadelphia,
where the number of deaths approached 1,000 a day at the pandemic’s peak.
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One
pathetic outcome was the children’s hopscotch chant:
I had a
little bird
His name
was Venza
I opened-up
the window
And ‘In Flew Venza’
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A macabre reflection back to the ‘Black Plague’ was the children’s chant:
A macabre reflection back to the ‘Black Plague’ was the children’s chant:
Ring around
the rosy ---- the skin lesions
Pockets
full of posies ---- flowers in pockets
to cover odors
Ashes,
Ashes -------------- all dead were
burned
We all fall
down ------------ we all will die
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Not many ‘safe
spaces’ for children back then!
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China’s Culpability In Wohan Virus Racist – Really?
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China’s Culpability In Wohan Virus Racist – Really?
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